Global Forest Watch

Alphome Community Farms is Committed to better forest management, promoting all possible actions to reduce deforestation and making related known and owned by local communities in DRC. 🌿🌱🌴🌳🌲

🌍 Exciting News from TRF Ghana! 🌱 We are honored to be selected as one of the 2025–2026 Small Grants Fund recipients under the. Global Forest Watch program by the. World Resources Institute 🎉 With this support, The Resource Foundation Ghana will strengthen community-based forest monitoring in Ghana’s Western North Region empowering forest-fringe communities to lead efforts in combating deforestation and land degradation. This grant marks a major milestone in our mission to promote climate resilience, sustainable land management, and community-driven conservation. A heartfelt thank you to #WorldResourcesInstitute and #GlobalForestWatch for believing in our vision and the power of local action. We look forward to a year of impactful collaboration and transformative results. 💚🌳 #SmallGrantsFund #GlobalForestWatch #WRIGlobal #CommunityLedConservation #ClimateAction #ForestRestoration #Sustainability #TRFGhana #WesternNorthGhana

Very excited to welcome the 2025 - 2026 cohort of #SmallGrantsFund recipients! Feeling very inspired by the projects this year and very much look forward to partnering with these incredible organizations to achieve impact on-the-ground for forest protection. Check out the blog to learn more about the projects of our 10th SGF cohort! https://lnkd.in/dKfFQ3Ud #forestprotection #locallyledconservation #civilsociety

🌲 New blog alert - Mapping the drivers of forest loss: how new data can inform strategies to protect the world’s forests From 2001-2024, disturbances impacted over 500 million hectares of tree cover worldwide – an area larger than the EU - but what's driving these disturbances? 🌾Permanent agriculture accounts for 33% globally (168M ha), followed by wildfire and logging.   If we don’t understand the causes, we can’t create effective solutions. That’s why World Resources Institute and Google DeepMind have teamed up to create the first global map of dominant forest loss drivers – powered by deep learning and satellite imagery, with an impressive 90.5% accuracy at 1km resolution. Dive into the insights from Michelle Sims and discover how this data: - enables companies to identify commodity-driven risks in supply chains, - helps civil society track progress on forest commitments, and - allows policymakers to design targeted interventions. 👥 Essential reading for sustainability professionals, supply chain managers, conservationists, researchers & regulators, and especially those navigating emerging regulations like the #EUDR. 🔗 Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/dRfWtcf9 #Deforestation #Forests #Sustainability #SupplyChains #AIforGood #RemoteSensing #ClimateAction #LandUse #NatureTech #DeepLearning #ForestGovernance #ForestMonitoring Global Forest Watch Land & Carbon Lab

Announcing our 2025-2026 #SmallGrantsFund recipients! 🎉 🤝 12 grantees awarded between $10-40K 🌍 7 countries represented from across the Americas, Africa and Asia 📍 18.6M hectares of land and forest to be monitored! This year also marks the 10th cohort of GFW Small Grants Fund recipients and a decade of empowering local, community-led organizations to lead the fight against deforestation and other critical environmental challenges. We are so proud to continue this legacy. Congratulations to this year's grantees — we look forward to seeing the incredible work you will accomplish! Get to know the projects and the passionate people behind them in our new blog: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eA_T4Ak4 World Resources Institute Land & Carbon Lab Stephanie Borcea #protectforests #localaction #deforestation #locallyled

Wrapping up day 2 at the #IUCNCongress! 🌍 Jessica Webb spoke on a panel exploring EUDR compliance, noting that real impact depends on partnerships that align production, restoration, and market incentives to create value, not just avoid risk. Gabrielle Nussbaum moderated a session on community-based conservation and the role of integrated technologies. ➡️ Missed this discussion? Join us on Monday at the Americas Pavilion (12–1PM) for a continuation of this conversation, this time focused on perspectives from the Americas. If you're here in Abu Dhabi, stop by the World Resources Institute booth to learn more about Global Forest Watch, as well as Land & Carbon Lab and #Landmark 📅 We're here until October 13 📍 Booth 158, across from the IUCN Business Pavilion IUCN, Christopher Wilcox, Jes Lefcourt, Christopher Wilcox, Minu Parahoe, Gregg Casad, Jes Lefcourt, Ali Swanson, Eric Schmidt, Petch Manopawitr Ph.D.

Today is the first day of the 2025 IUCN World Conservation Congress! 🌍 We're here in Abu Dhabi at the World Resources Institute booth, alongside Land & Carbon Lab and #Landmark! Stop by our booth to learn more about Global Forest Watch and these other data initiatives. 📅 We're here October 9-13 📍 Booth 158, across from the IUCN Business Pavilion #IUCNCongress Jessica Webb Gabrielle Nussbaum

📰 100+ journalists, communicators and environmental lawyers 🕵️♀️14 leading experts, including five members of the Nature Crime Alliance 🦏🌳🌊Three days of trainings on crimes that affect the environment and approaches to investigating them ‘Uncovering Environmental Crime: Specialised Trainings for Journalists and Communications Professionals’ – our course convened in partnership with UNICRI - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and FACT Coalition – aimed to support journalists and communicators better understand environmental crimes and build connections with subject matter experts. We are so grateful to the experts who gave up their time to share their insights with those seeking to expose environmental crime and the corruption that drives it. Day one, moderated by Paul Radu, Co-Founder and Head of Innovation at the The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Marina Mazzini, Public Information Officer at UNICRI, focused on the structures and financial aspects of environmental crime, featuring presentations from Dr Louise Shelley, Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Julia Yansura from the FACT Coalition, and John Elsmore Dodsworth at WWF-UK The second day, moderated by Matthew Burnett-Stuart, Programme Officer, UNICRI, explored scientific and investigative techniques and approaches to environmental crime journalism. It saw insights from Dr Meredith Gore, Professor and Research Director, University of Maryland; David Taylor, Adjunct Professor, Science Writing Program, The Johns Hopkins University; Emily Fishbein, a Network Fellow at the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network; Andrea Crosta, Founder of Earth League International (ELI), and Flaviano Bianchini Founder and Director, Source International Day three, moderated by Luke Foddy, Communications Manager, Nature Crime Alliance, explored challenges around transboundary investigations and disinformation, as well as the value of earth observation technologies, with sessions from Bruce Ohr, Executive Director of the International Wildlife Trust; Francesco Marelli Caltarossa and Katy C., both from UNICRI’s CBRN and Disinformation Programme; Ruth N., Senior Associate at Global Forest Watch, and Maria Michela Corvino, Earth Observation Security Applications Engineer at the European Space Agency - ESA Thank you to our experts and the fantastic participants who joined the free online course, and to Leif Villadsen, Acting Director, UNICRI, and Andrew Marshall, Chief Communications Officer at World Resources Institute, for their opening remarks Read more about the sessions here: https://lnkd.in/e6vsT-Gw #environmentalcrime #crimesagainsttheenvironment #cae #naturecrime #journalism #environmentaljournalism #communications #corruption #environmentalcommunications #training #journalismtraining

Knowing where our food comes from and whether it was produced sustainably or not - for example, if it was linked to deforestation - can be extremely challenging. The complexity lies in food's "first mile", referring to the journey of a crop from the farm to a local distributor, especially when many agricultural commodities are produced by millions of smallholder farmers around the world. We spoke to Saurav Shrivastava, Head of Product at Farmforce, which helps companies and farmers tackle these challenges with data-based tools, about why they're working with #gfwpro for their deforestation monitoring solution and why open data is important for supporting both smallholders as well as the companies making deforestation-free claims. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e8sGZnWr #deforestationfree #sustainablesupplychains #eudr